PICK OF TODAY’S RADIO

I’M NOT A MONSTER: THE SHAMIMA BEGUM STORY, RADIO 4, 11AM

story of British teenager Shamima Begum (pictured) who, together with two other schoolgirls, obtained entry to Syria in 2015 to join Islamic State. Baker has spent more than a year talking to Begum in Syria to unpick her story and find out what has happened to her over the past eight years. THE journalist Josh Baker told the story of an American mother who went to live with her three children in a Syrian caliphate in the first series of I’m Not A Monster, which is still available on BBC Sounds. Now he returns with an equally gripping ten-part series that tells the divisive

▪ INSTEAD of making dauntingly challenging New Year resolutions, Michael Mosley (pictured) coaxes us into thinking about little changes that, cumulatively, could improve your life. He’ll be nudging us along the road to mental and physical wellness over the next ten weeks in JUST ONE THING (RADIO 4, 9.30AM), with some more of these small but significant changes. Cutting down on sugar and eating more fruit to give your brain a boost is first on Michael’s list.